Is Climate Change Real?

Prof. McIntire and Prof. Green

This Wednesday November 16, 2016, the leadership of 2020 A Year Without War, of which I am a part of, organized a great and mind-blowing event: CLIMATE CHANGE: Are We Responsible? The debate was between the SBCC faculty members Professor Mark McIntire and Professor Adam Green. In the debate, Professor McIntire was supporting that climate change is not due to human activities, and Adam Green was instead supporting that climate change is real and it is greatly due to the human impact on the Earth’s environment. How interesting was it going to be? Would it be a great turnout? I’ll tell you soon everything about it.

OMG.. Too many people!

The event was initially held in room A-160. However, as soon as the time of the event was approaching, more than a hundred students that couldn’t fit in the room were waiting outside the class to hope for having a chance to get to see the debate… The event organizers and myself were starting to worry on how we could have fixed this situation. Who could have expected more than 200 people to attend?!? Fortunately, one of the faculty members managed to have permission to hold the event in a bigger room and a flow of hundreds of students slowly moved form one the room in the Administration building to another room on the third floor of the EBS building. Successfully, we moved all the people but still a lot of students were waiting outside, disappointed in not having the chance to assist to the debate.

22 people watching!

Here comes my part! As 2020 AYWW Public Relation Vice-President, I decided to stream the event live on our Facebook page!!! In this way the numerous people who were missing out on the event would have had the chance to check it out from the 20202 A Year Without War Club Facebook page. Setting up the phone in order to live-stream the event was a bit of a challenge, but in the end I managed with the help of a 2020 AYWW volunteer to stabilize my phone and stream 1 hour and 35 minute of debate! It was impressive to see that 22 people constantly for the whole length of the event watched the event while I was streaming it! Wooooww!!! Besides, I found out later that in another CC room about 20 other people were watching the event live from the page live-stream!! Isn’t it impressive?? I would have never imagined that the event would be this successful… Amazing.